A new movie shows the dangers of our dependence on technology.

There's a movement gaining force in the cultural conscience that we highly recommend supporting. Earlier this week, we wrote about a piece in The New York Times that presented compelling health-related evidence about the importance of separating from technology. Now, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington has joined the groundswell.

She took to the HuffPost Healthy Living vertical to discuss the seductive nature of technology. One second, we're getting a smart phone so we won't get lost when driving in unknown areas; the next, we're hunched over playing Words With Friends instead of focusing on the meeting we're in or our son's soccer game. The brain loves forming habits, and technology addiction is very easily learned to quickly become the norm.

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Even if you're using that smart phone as a means to communicate with others (after all, you technically need friends to play Words With them), it's not the same as face-to-face human interaction. Not only does that decrease your vagal tone — which, in turn, diminishes your capacity for empathy, connection, and friendship — it's also completely illusory. It may feel like human interaction and connection, but it actually makes us feel more alone. Huffington points out that "many people use the Internet as medication, to dull pain and disappointments. One thing leads to another and, before you know it, you're missing your own life."

Huffington's post was inspired by a new movie that addresses this exact problem. In Disconnect, three main narratives are interwoven to portray characters whose lives have been completely taken over by technology dependence. The film paints a vivid portrait of the different forms our 24-7 connectivity can take on (living through social media, being glued to your email, online pornography viewing) and how they distance us from one another.

Around here, some of us are attempting to go a day using our phones only for calls. You might want to consider trying it, too. If you feel completely lost, maybe it's time to disconnect.